It’s so broken, so completely disrespectful to the source material and especially Picards character,
It is absolutely not disrespectful to the source material. It may not portray Picard as the unironic white savior figure TNG portrayed him as, but PIC is never anything except respectful of the shows that came before it even when it's being deconstructionist. In particular, PIC grounds all the major conflicts in the most important relationships and conflicts of Picard's life on TNG.
its interpretation of the Star Trek universe was just wrong IMHO.
What does that mean?
ANd now only that but they flat out lied to us, that it was gonna be an in depth look at Picards character etc.
It was. Just check out the "Checking your privilege" thread for a discussion on how PIC delved into the complexities of Picard's personality, both the good and the bad.
Nonsense, Picard was sidelined as a bumbling fool who never had any idea what was going on.
Picard is literally the only guy wise enough to realize that there's a problem and saves the day through the power of compassion and diplomacy. He sometimes makes mistakes, but at no point is he bumbling or a fool.
This is a series where people date androids, humans marry aliens which much different life spans and shift through time.
An age difference is what is considered problematic? O_o
It's not the age difference per se. It's the fact that if Jurati is Pill's real-life age (34) in 2399, that means she would have been born in 2365 (during TNG Season Two) and been engaged to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather
when she was 20.
I'm sorry, but there is no way a 20-year-old has the kind of self-knowledge, life experience, and personal empowerment for that to ever be appropriate. Almost nobody at the age of 20 has it together yet. There's an inherent and
significant power differential between someone who's barely out of high school and someone who's been running their own life for decades, between a full adult and someone who is too young to know who they are yet.
Like, if Jurati had even just been five years older, I wouldn't consider it as much of a problem. It would be
weird and I'd be cautious, but a 25-year-old generally knows who they are better than a 20-year-old. All years in a person's life are not created equally, and those five years between 20 and 25 are important years. But 20? No way man.
Re: Bruce Maddox’s age: He was in charge of Starfleet Academy admissions in 2341. That was 58 years before PIC. For argument’s sake, let’s say he was 25 when he had that job. That would make him 83 years old when the 30-something Jurati was engaged to him (assuming that the engagement was the same year that she offed him in 2399.)
Good catch about Maddox's age in 2341! I think your math is a bit off though. If Maddox was 25 in 2341, then he would have been born in 2316. Maddox and Jurati were engaged to be married in 2385 before he disappeared; in 2385, he would have been 69 years old, and 84 when Jurati killed him.
Still, a 69-year-old dating a 20-year-old is pretty extreme...!
I simply don’t think the writers intended the age difference to be that extreme in this instance.
Definitely agree. That's why I figure Jurati has to be
at least ten years older than Allison Pill in real life. It feels more plausible to me that a 30-year-old woman might date a man in his 60s than a 20-year-old. (I mean, honestly neither seems particularly plausible to me, but Hollywood
often matches older men with women young enough to be their daughters, so I'm grading on a curve.)
ETA:
Side-note: If Jurati is 34 in 2399, that means she was born in 2365 during TNG Season Two. That means she literally could have been born while Maddox was going after Data during "The Measure of a Man."
